India, April 2 -- An American F-15 jet was purportedly seen chasing after an Iranian Shahed drone in Iraqi skies. A video shared widely on the Internet showed a jet trying to target a drone in the air as plumes of smoke emerged in the backdrop.

While some social media handles claimed that the US F-15 jet "failed" to shoot down the drone in northern Iraq, others said that the drone later struck in Erbil.

The video surfaced amid heightened escalation fears in the ongoing Iran-US war.

Shahed drones are low-cost Iranian weapons reportedly used a lot in the ongoing war with Israel and the US. These drones, which have played a big role for Iran in the war, are easier to deploy but difficult to destroy on the ground.

According to an earlier ...